Āghā Muḥammad Qājār - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Perry, John R.
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Portrait of Āghā Muḥammad Qājār from John Malcolm, A History of Persia , 1815. Āghā Muḥammad Khān (Shāh) Qājār (r. 1203-11/1789-97; Illustration 1) was the founder of the Qājār dynasty of Iran. Born about 1155/1742, at Dāmghān, he was the eldest son of Muḥammad Ḥasan Khān (d. 1172/1759), chief of the Quvānlū clan of the Qājārs of Astarābād, who was a fugitive on the Turkmen steppe during the reign of Nādir Shāh Afshār (r. 1149-60/1736-47). On the death of Nādir, his successor in